We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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